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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joelan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. It's great to be with you today,

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Speaker 1: and I hope you'll stay connected with us during the

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Speaker 1: week through our daily podcast or YouTube channel, social media,

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Speaker 1: and you can come visit us in person. We'd love

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Speaker 1: to have you be a part of one of our services.

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Speaker 1: I like to start It was something funny and I

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Speaker 1: heard about this little girl. She was sitting on her

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Speaker 1: grandfather's laugh and she noticed how wrinkled his face was.

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Speaker 1: As she contemplated the difference between his and hers, she said, granddaddy,

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Speaker 1: did God make you? And he gotta laughed and said, yes, honey,

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Speaker 1: he made me a long time ago. She then asked,

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Speaker 1: did God make me? He said yes, he made you

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Speaker 1: just a little while ago. She thought about it in a minute, said, grandaddy,

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Speaker 1: God's getting better, isn't it all right? Y'all say it

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Speaker 1: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am

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Speaker 1: what it says, I am, I have what it says

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Speaker 1: I have, I can do what it says I can do.

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Speaker 1: Today I will be taught the word of God. I

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Speaker 1: boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 1: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 1: building yourself up. It's good to have people that cheer

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Speaker 1: us on and speak faith into our life, and a

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Speaker 1: spouse that compliments us, a neighbor with an uplifting word,

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Speaker 1: a friend that's always there to encourage. It's healthy when

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Speaker 1: you have people that make you feel valued and appreciated,

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Speaker 1: but it becomes unhealthy if you start depending on them

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Speaker 1: to keep your cheer. Now, if they don't complement you,

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Speaker 1: you don't feel good about who you are. If they're

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Speaker 1: not there to encourage, you don't have the passion. That

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Speaker 1: coworker doesn't tell you did good on your project, you're

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Speaker 1: down thinking you're not enough. We can become addicted to

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Speaker 1: approval and addicted to compliments, to where we base our

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Speaker 1: value our worth on what people are telling us, kind

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Speaker 1: of like a drug. We need them to feel good

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Speaker 1: about who we are. But God didn't create you to

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Speaker 1: be dependent on someone else. To keep you fixed. He

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Speaker 1: uses people in those ways, but at some point he's

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Speaker 1: going to pull them back. He's not going to let

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Speaker 1: them keep giving you that. Otherwise you would get stuck.

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Speaker 1: The problem with relying on people is people can let

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Speaker 1: you down. People can be busy and they're not there

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Speaker 1: when you need them. People have their own issues, raising

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Speaker 1: their children, struggling with their marriage. If you're counting on

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Speaker 1: them to call you each morning and prop you up

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Speaker 1: and tell you how good you look at work, and

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Speaker 1: encourage you in every difficult see, that's a codependent relationship.

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Speaker 1: You need them to feel good about who you are.

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Speaker 1: Here's the key. If nobody is complimenting you, you need

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Speaker 1: to learn to compliment yourself. If nobody told you that

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Speaker 1: you look good today, why don't you look in the

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Speaker 1: mirror and say, wow, you look good. You're a masterpiece,

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Speaker 1: want of a kind, a prize possession. Nobody made you

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Speaker 1: feel special. Your friend didn't call, that neighbor didn't come over.

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Speaker 1: Good news. You can make yourself feel special. I am

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Speaker 1: a child of the most high. I've been handpicked by

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Speaker 1: the creator of the universe. I have royal blood flowing

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Speaker 1: through my veins. Quit putting how you feel about yourself,

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Speaker 1: your mood, your value in someone else's hands. The scripture says,

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Speaker 1: build yourself up. Don't rely on other people to affirm,

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Speaker 1: to approve, to validate. Approve yourself. I'm made in the

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Speaker 1: image of all my God. I'm approved, I'm worthy, I'm valuable.

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Speaker 1: When you're trying to get your approval and your validation

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Speaker 1: from other people, you're at their mercy. They're having a

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Speaker 1: bad day, they're upset, mad at their spouse. You're not

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Speaker 1: gonna get what you were hoping for. But when you

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Speaker 1: learn to build yourself up, what they give or don't

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Speaker 1: give doesn't affect you. You already built up. You already

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Speaker 1: know who you are. You don't need other people to

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Speaker 1: keep you fixed. You encourage yourself. You complimented yourself, You

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Speaker 1: approved yourself. This is a powerful way to live. Nobody

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Speaker 1: else is controlling your mood, your self worth. You've taken control.

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Speaker 1: Every morning before you leave the house, you need to

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Speaker 1: a roller coaster. One day people will love you, and

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Speaker 1: next day they're talking behind your back. One day, your

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Speaker 1: friend is full of compliments, the next day they're full

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Speaker 1: of a lot of other stuff. One day, your spouse

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Speaker 1: That means pretty mean, sisters. When you build yourself up,

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Speaker 1: over who didn't give you credit. You're not frustrated because

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Speaker 1: people didn't approve you. You've already approved yourself. Nobody said anything

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Speaker 1: good about all your hard work. That's okay, you already

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Speaker 1: complimented yourselves. Nobody clapped for your excellent presentation. The ones

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Speaker 1: got jealous. They found fault. That's all right, You already

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Speaker 1: clapped for yourself. They didn't celebrate you, but you celebrated yourself. Father,

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Speaker 1: thank you for helping me to shine. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: my gifts, my talents causing me to excel. You're not

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Speaker 1: dependent on what others do to feel good about who

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Speaker 1: you are. Every time I walk off this platform and

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Speaker 1: finish another message. I said, Joel, that was good today.

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Speaker 1: You did excellent. And I don't mean that arrogantly, but

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Speaker 1: I've learned to celebrate myself. May not have been as

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Speaker 1: good as what someone else could do. There are ministers,

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Speaker 1: more skilled, more experienced, but I did to the best

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Speaker 1: of my ability. It's healthy to clap for yourself, to

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Speaker 1: celebrate what you've done. You're not bragging on you. You're bragging

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Speaker 1: on the gifts, the talents, the abilities that God has

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Speaker 1: it's never enough, there's always a nagging voice telling them

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Speaker 1: they should have done better. They live with this inner

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Speaker 1: critic that's constantly putting them down, pointing out their faults,

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Speaker 1: magnifying the negative. You gave a good message, Joel, but

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Speaker 1: it's kind of slow at times. Or you worked out

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Speaker 1: four times this week, you really should have done five.

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Speaker 1: Or yeah, you look all right today, but not like

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Speaker 1: you used to look. Do yourself a favor. Tune out

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Speaker 1: that inner critic. You have enough people on the outside

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Speaker 1: You don't need one on the inside. Nobody should be

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Speaker 1: more for you than you. That's not being selfish, that's

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Speaker 1: being responsible with the gift God has given you. Learn

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Speaker 1: to celebrate yourself. You clap for others, When was the

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Speaker 1: last time you clap for yourself? You compliment your friends.

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Speaker 1: When was the last time you complimented yourself? You brag

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Speaker 1: on your coworker that was excellent, You did great. When

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Speaker 1: was the last time you bragged on you? You told

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Speaker 1: more you applaud yourself, the less dependent you are on

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Speaker 1: other people's applause. If you approve yourself, you're not going

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Speaker 1: to be needy for other people's approval. If you're free

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Speaker 1: with your compliments to yourself, then you won't be insecuring

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Speaker 1: get them to validate you. Tell you that you're good.

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Speaker 1: You won't need that. You've already built yourself up with

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Speaker 1: who God says you are. You already know you're valuable,

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Speaker 1: you're worthy, you're talented, attractive, you're exceptional, and yes, it's

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Speaker 1: nice when people reaffirm that, but you're not dependent on

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Speaker 1: it to feel good about who you are. You know

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Speaker 1: who you are one time I was talking to a

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Speaker 1: man after the service, and he was very nice, but

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Speaker 1: he said, Joel, I just didn't understand that point that

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Speaker 1: If I would have heard that the first couple of

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Speaker 1: years i'd been ministering, I'd been depressed for two months,

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Speaker 1: gone home, defeated, feeling inadequate. But I've learned what I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you. I didn't need his applause. I had already

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Speaker 1: clapped for myself. I wasn't basing my joy, my worth,

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Speaker 1: my confidence on what he did or didn't give me.

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Speaker 1: I had already built myself up. And yes, I'm always

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Speaker 1: open for suggestions. Here are things I can do better.

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Speaker 1: But you're never going to please everyone. No matter how

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Speaker 1: not give their approval. I love what Jesus said. Your

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Speaker 1: approval or disapproval means nothing to me. He wasn't being disrespectful.

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Speaker 1: He was simply saying, I know who I am, and

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Speaker 1: I know where I get my value. That's the place

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Speaker 1: we need to get to. We don't have to have

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Speaker 1: We keep our shoulders back. We know who we are.

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Speaker 1: They didn't approve us, but we've approved ourselves. They didn't

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Speaker 1: compliment us, but we complimented ourselves. When that man told

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Speaker 1: I do every morning after I thank God for what

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Speaker 1: I thank you that you chose me before I could

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Speaker 1: choose you. That I am a person of destiny, redeemed

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Speaker 1: accepted me, crown me with your favor. You've planned out

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Speaker 1: God's hands. Go to him to get your value, your approval.

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Speaker 1: See the scripture says, out of your belly shall flow

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Speaker 1: rivers of living water. We're looking to others to keep

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Speaker 1: me feeling valuable. Here's the key. Nobody can give you

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Speaker 1: everything you need. Nobody can keep you fixed. Your spouse,

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Speaker 1: your friends, your boss, they can love you more than anything,

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Speaker 1: be totally for you. But only God can give you

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Speaker 1: what you need. He'll use people, but people are limited.

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Speaker 1: If you're depending on a person, it's not only going

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Speaker 1: load they can't carry. You're trying to get from them

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Speaker 1: what only God can give. The sooner you start building

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Speaker 1: you and the others in your life. You weren't created

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Speaker 1: to live relying on someone else, basing your work on

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Speaker 1: who approves you. Approve yourself. Turn off that inner critic

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Speaker 1: that's always putting you down. You're supposed to feel good

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Speaker 1: about who you are now. I know you have flaws

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Speaker 1: areas you need to improve in, so do I. But

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Speaker 1: or being broken. Right now, God is breathing strength, value, freedom, healing.

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Speaker 1: You're about to rise higher, accomplish dreams, and reach new

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Speaker 1: receive it, can you say amen? I'd like to give

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Speaker 1: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 1: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make

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Speaker 1: you my Lord and savior. If you prayed that simple prayer,

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Speaker 1: we believe you got born again and we'd love to

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Speaker 2: Sometimes the difficulties of life can be so overwhelming you

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Speaker 1: We all face situations where we don't see a way out.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to get discouraged and give up on what

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Speaker 1: we're believing. For that's how we felt. In nineteen eighty one,

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Speaker 1: my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given a

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Speaker 1: but she chose to believe that God is a miracle worker. Today,

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Speaker 1: forty three years later, by the grace of God, she's

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Speaker 1: God did it for my mother, He'll do it for you.

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Speaker 2: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 2: God has miracles stored up for you, healing, freedom, favor, breakthroughs.

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Speaker 1: Miracles still happen today, and faith is what activates God's power.

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Speaker 1: When you believe all things are possible, that's when you'll

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Speaker 1: Victory and I are standing in faith with you. We

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Speaker 1: pray for you every day. We appreciate your prayer and support.

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Speaker 1: Your generosity is impacting so many lives. Remember you can

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